BALTIMORE \u2014 Major League Baseball now uses technology to confirm or overturn balls and strikes.<\/p>\n
Is it time for something similar around the foul poles?<\/p>\n
The Baltimore Orioles<\/a> certainly felt aggrieved Wednesday night against the New York Yankees<\/a> after Pete Alonso’s deep fly to left field in the seventh inning was ruled foul \u2014 and the call was upheld on a review.<\/p>\n The play occurred with the game tied at 3. New York then scored twice in the top of the eighth and\u00a0went on to win 5-3.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a simple fix is like football, you have the pylon camera with the plane, where it shoots right across the goal line,\u201d Alonso said. \u201cAnd I feel like, for us, we could easily have a laser or a camera that shoots straight up.\u201d<\/p>\n Manager Craig Albernaz shared Alonso’s frustration.<\/p>\n \u201cOn the dugout iPads there\u2019s ball-tracking data with the field that the players see, so it\u2019s really tough to have that (call) come back as \u2018stands\u2019 and have that visual in the dugout as well. It\u2019s 2026,\u201d Albernaz said. \u201cThere are teams using AI on the iPads and other sports use ball-tracking data for challengeable calls. Don\u2019t understand why we don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n At least one replay seemed to show the ball on the fair side of the pole, but it wasn\u2019t clear what angle that shot was from.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I was told is in order to overturn a call, you need to have two camera angles to confirm it,\u201d Alonso said. \u201cBut the best view, the only view that shows the ball fair or foul is the one down the line, but no other camera angle is available. So video room rules it foul, umpire obviously called it foul initially. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n It might have been easier for the umpire \u2014 and the replay room \u2014 to make the call if Alonso’s hit hadn’t been so high. It appeared to tower above the foul pole at one point.<\/p>\n \u201cThat we don\u2019t have the technology in place to actually say, \u2018Hey, this was fair or foul,\u2019 is literally crazy in 2026. It\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Chris Bassitt, Baltimore’s starting pitcher Wednesday.<\/p>\n Bassitt then blamed financial considerations for why such technology isn’t used.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause it would cost money,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s it. I mean, that\u2019s literally it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Major League Baseball now uses technology to confirm or overturn balls and strikes. Is it time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-864760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}